/lit/ - Literature

Nobody runs forever (Richard Stark)
The three body problem
The two towers

Starting pic related now.

>>9785853
Put words on how I felt, made me even more depressed. It was the first book that I could read without falling asleep or getting bored.

Can we stop the elitist anti-translation memes? The rare cases where texts are untranslatable are not worth the extra trouble of learning an ENTIRELY NEW LANGUAGE.

>lol dude listen to me being miserable for 700 pages

>>9447714

What did the ending mean?

Why did Madelon do it; and what was the significance of "it"?

Working as a software developer about the same age as the narrator, havent lost my marbles yet though. This is a good one too

awhile ago i saved some books that everyone seemed to have but my phone shit itself so post what you got if you'd be so kind. > pic related just finished this >need more fucking books to read

>>8677606

>Why kid ourselves, people have nothing to say to one another, they all talk about their own troubles and nothing else. Each man for himself, the earth for us all. They try to unload their unhappiness on someone else when making love, they do their damnedest, but it doesn't work, they keep it all, and then they start all over again, trying to find a place for it. "Your pretty, Mademoiselle," they say. And life takes hold of them again until the next time, and then they try the same little gimmick. "You're very pretty, Mademoiselle..."

>And in between they boast that they've succeeded in getting rid of their unhappiness, but everyone knows it's not true and they've simply kept it all to themselves. Since at the little game you get uglier and more repulsive as you grow older, you can't hope to hide your unhappiness, your bankruptcy, any longer. In the end your features are marked with that hideous grimace that takes twenty, thrity years or more to climb form your belly to your face. That's all a man is good for, that and no more, a grimace that he takes a whole lifetime to compose. The grimace a man would need to express his true soul without losing any of it is so heavy and complicated that he doesn't always succeed in completing it.”

what does /lit/ think of this book. worth the read?

Any more books like this? I'm soon finished with the Journey to the end of the night and I really like it.

Is this Holocaust denier worth reading?
I watched The Great Beauty which opened with a quote of his.

How to into Céline?

>170 posts

Thinking of picking this up is there any translation I should avoid


Also anything I should read first

this book is hilarious entertainment! i wasn't expecting this at all.

Am I the only one who didn't find this very depressing?
I mean, I liked a lot, but the nihilistic views were more liberating than sad, to me.

>>6439490
Yeah.
Glad I didn't read it too young though, I think it would have destroyed me.

Not only the greatest French book but the greatest book of all time objectivly

>>5883946

Read the first 150 pages and if you still want to go to war, be my fucking guest

This book destroyed me.